Just so you guys know, whenever I feel like updating this thing and can't be bothered typing up some claptrap or other about an album, I'll just post something brief about a couple of songs I'm digging like ditches at the minute. Starting with...
Artist: Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters
Tunage: Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive
First of all, if you've never seen the original mini-series, Dennis Potter's
the Singing Detective that the above clip's taken from, where've ya been! Seriously though, it's amazing stuff - fantastic musical numbers, brilliant acting, beautifully written and one of the most gloriously surreal story arcs I've ever seen on TV. Good as the Robert Downey Jr remake of is, truthfully it ain't a patch on the good old BBC version.
Anyway, you might think I'm a bit of an old fart when you see a Bing tune popping up here, and you'd probably be right
I've always loved this song ever since I first heard it, which was quite literally longer ago than I can actually remember. I was probably 4 or 5 when I first heard this on one of those cassettes my Dad would make and play on the long car journeys.
Good ol' Bing eh. I swear he's got a voice like a bottle of Bushmill's - a bit of a system shock at first, but goes down real smooth all the same! Musically speaking, not only is this home to one of the best swinging melodies I've ever heard, but skip to about 2 minutes in if you wanna hear probably my favourite vocal duet (well, as far as some bloke and a girl band can be called a duet anyway) ever...at least until I listen to
Stranger In the House by Elvis Costello and George Jones or
That's All It Took by Emmylou Harris and Gram Parsons again anyway...
Artist: K-Klass vs New Order
Tunage: Ruined In a Day [remix]
And talking of duet-type things, there's always the duet in its vaguest possible sense - the dancefloor remix!
Truth be told, I haven't got an awful lot to say about this one, as there aren't really any specific memories I have attached to this apart from its sheer awesomeness. Seeing as that's probably my most overused word on or offline, I'll just leave it there.
Well, I guess I owe a tune of this calibre more than that, so I'll say that this one's definitely in my top 5 remixes of all time. Much as I love New Order's original, this K-Klass remix really improves on it by turning the acid houseness up to 11. Enjoy!
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Originally Posted by jackhammer
Also have heard Ludovico Einuadi at all? He is a an Italian composer who has done a lot of work for the film director Shane Meadows regarding incidental music, although this is from one of his solo albums.
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Yeah, Ashram's vocals are pretty grating, but the soundscapes they create on that album are just mesmerising. I think I'll actually knock half a star off that review with that in mind.
Also, Saltillo and Craig Armstrong are people I've heard a few things by, and actually really loved...especially the latter. That This Love track you've got there isn't one of them, but you're absolutely right - it sounds absolutely beautiful. I'll just have a quick look on filestube for the Space Between Us in a second or two. And that second vid you posted, Una Mattina, sounds literally spot on to the kind of neoclassical I've been looking for lately - which album do you think I should go for?
Neoclassical/new age/whatever on the whole is something I've found to be a bit of a mixed bag. Where you've got your Lisa Gerrards, your Ashrams and your Corde Obliques, which do well to mix up the elements a bit and sound immense at the end of it, you've got your Loreena McKennitts, Enyas and others which are admirable enough, but just plain not my cuppa tea. I guess I'm a bigger fan of the more gothic stuff and less of the Celtic-infused stuff, meditation music and the like.